Published Nov 9, 2026, 1:00 PM EST

No one in my friends and family circle, which includes mostly non-tech-savvy people, uses text messages for communication. That's enough for me to label text messages ancient.

I ditched text messaging a long time ago, and I haven't looked back since. I use RCS in Google Messages every day to send and receive messages on my Android phone.

However, I'd still say text messages sometimes seem more reliable than RCS because of its inconsistencies in Google Messages. If you search online, you'll see many people raising the same issue.

I can overlook a couple of missing features, but I don't love something unreliable, especially when I depend on it.…